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THE FIRST BOOK OF THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 7
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Sons and families are named for Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, and Asher.
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Now</span> the sons of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_chr/7/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 46: 13; Num. 1: 28 (28-29); Num. 26: 23 (23-26).">Issachar</a> <i>were,</i> Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
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And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, <i>to wit,</i> of Tola: <i>they were</i> valiant men of might in their generations; whose <sup>a</sup><a href="1_chr/7/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Sam. 24: 9 (1-2, 9).">number</a> <i>was</i> in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
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And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
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And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, <i>were</i> bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand <i>men:</i> for they had many wives and sons.
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And their brethren among all the families of Issachar <i>were</i> valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.
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&#182; <i>The sons</i> of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_chr/7/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 46: 21; Num. 26: 38.">Benjamin</a>; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
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And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of <i>their</i> fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
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And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth.  All these <i>are</i> the sons of Becher.
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And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, <i>was</i> twenty thousand and two hundred.
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&#182; The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
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All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, <i>were</i> seventeen thousand and two hundred <i>soldiers,</i> fit to go out for war <i>and</i> battle.
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Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, <i>and</i> Hushim, the sons of Aher.
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&#182; The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
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&#182; The sons of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_chr/7/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 26: 29 (29-33); Alma 10: 3.">Manasseh</a>; Ashriel, whom she bare: (<i>but</i> his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:
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And Machir took to wife <i>the sister</i> of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name <i>was</i> Maachah;) and the name of the second <i>was</i> Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
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And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother <i>was</i> Sheresh; and his sons <i>were</i> Ulam and Rakem.
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And the sons of Ulam; Bedan.  These <i>were </i>the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
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And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
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And the sons of Shemida were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
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&#182; And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,
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&#182; And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath <i>that were</i> born in <i>that</i> land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.
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And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
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&#182; And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
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(And his daughter <i>was</i> Sherah, who built Beth-horon the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_chr/7/24a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB below, underneath.">nether</a>, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)
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And Rephah <i>was</i> his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
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Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
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Non his son, <sup>a</sup><a href="1_chr/7/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 11: 28; Num. 13: 16.">Jehoshua</a> his son.
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&#182; And their possessions and habitations <i>were,</i> Beth-el and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:
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And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns.  In these dwelt the children of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_chr/7/29a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Joseph, People of.">Joseph</a> the son of Israel.
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&#182; The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
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And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who <i>is</i> the father of Birzavith.
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And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These <i>are</i> the children of Japhlet.
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And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
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And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
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The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
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Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
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And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.
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And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.
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All these <i>were</i> the children of Asher, heads of <i>their</i> father’s house, choice <i>and</i> mighty men of valour, chief of the princes.  And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war <i>and</i> to battle <i>was</i> twenty and six thousand men.
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